Wonderful Oddities

the single biggest influence in my life has been fantasy 

elsiemprejoven asked: i'm in asl 2 and i would enjoy practicing if you want. i have skype.. i'm under rogesan999 if you want to practice... My name is Roger...

Heck yeah! I would love that I’m so slow so please be patient with me! I’m on my lover’s computer and I don’t want to fuck with his skype account so I’ll add you tonight when I get home :D 

I’m learning sign language and seeking a certification in sign language interpretation. I’m desperately seeking Deaf or hard-of-hearing friends to talk with via skype to improve my knowledge of the Deaf culture and also to improve my signing skills. Please please please email me, Wonderful_oddities@aol.com 

Anonymous asked: Have you ever thought of moving to England? You would like it over here :)

Yes I have! I visit Scotland yearly for academic career purposes. My ex and first love lived in Essex and now Cambridge so I think it about often. I am apply to a school in Scotland so I can enjoy Scotland and England while I finish up my degree. Are you going to give me a tour? :) 

As of right now I have a crazy amount of jewelry still to sell, so I will not be making more until my stock sells or I get some custom orders. I will however be selling and making appliques—which are fucking amazing. I made an applique of an xbox controller for a good friend and I’ll be posting a picture soon. 

May your live be filled with struggles and your heart with courage 

I was thinking recently as I did more sketches (yes I also sketch) about my fascination with all things Wonderland and it one thing lead to another and I came to realize and accept this. 

Wonderland is my life and yet is not. Our world, is just as complicated, frightening, topsy-turvy, confusing, magical, surprising and amazing as Wonderland yet it lacks the fun, the adventure, the transparency of it all. We have to be aware, open our eyes and realize the complexities of our world, Wonderland is all of those things on the surface and so much more beneath. We identify with Alice because we’ve all been lost, more than likely in the non-physical sense. Mostly as teenagers or young adults we’ve all felt lost like we don’t know who we are, (like Alice searching for her true identity rather than being “Just Alice”). We’ve felt as though we were strangers in our own lives, that everything and everyone around us had gone completely mad. 

I have always lived a little out of sync with reality( like many other artists  and writers) and I feel I identify strongly with Wonderland. It’s a world much like Oz (Baum’s Oz) that has become so ingrained in people’s consciousness it has taken on a life of it’s own—grown expanded and evolved with it’s readers. 

My Wonderland pieces aim to bring that little bit of fantasy, of wonder, of strength to people in our reality. Let me know your opinions on Wonderland, and what kind of Wonderland themed pieces you’d like to see. 

I sold my jewelry at my first ever craft fair and broke over $100.00! I’m so happy at the overwhelming support and enthusiasm for my craft. 

For those of you I have offered discounts to, (and I do have a list) please contact me before ordering and I will create a special pay-pal page with the lower price of the piece or pieces you wish to purchase.

So email me at wonderful_oddities@aol.com with the name of the piece/pieces you wish to order, and I will factor in the discount and give you the final price. 

“Who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes?”